On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 0:51:07 +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 11:19 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> > I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working >>> > in awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dialogs. Over >>> > time, I suppose I've come to assume that ~ was a Un*x idiom rather >>> > than a shell idiom. >>> >>> Agreed; why shouldn't it work in groff? It should be relatively >>> straightforward to implement it (looks the other way). >> >> Consider this: >> >> .tr ~X >> .so ~/foo/bar > > And you might also consider this, in the bash *shell*: > > $ dir='~' > $ ls $dir > ls: ~: No such file or directory
Arguably that's a bug in bash. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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